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Hookem2147

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  1. He has coached in 32 games at OU yet has only had to play 8 ranked teams and only 3 in the top 10, all of them at home or at a neutral site. 2022: #19 Kansas and #23 Oklahoma State at home and won both, #13 FSU in bowl game loss 2023 #3 Texas win, at #22 OSU loss, #15 Arizona in bowl game loss 2024: #6 Tennessee at home non competitive loss, #1 Texas non competitive loss This overall record is ballooned by the fact he hasn’t lost a non conference game because their non conference schedule has been garbage all 3 years. He had the easiest schedule in the Big 12 last year and didn’t make the title game. If you look under the hood even more you see just how bad his tenure has been.
  2. FCB posted that the Bond ankle injury is very minor and he should play against Georgia.
  3. Yeah, he played poorly but the absolute worst decision would have been to pull the plug on your proven starter with skins on the wall after THREE drives when you are down 3-0 in favor of the media darling backup. That surely wouldn’t cause any drama or controversy. If this was 2022 or Ewers had looked like 2021 Spencer Rattler coming into this game I would have been more willing to entertain a change but you don’t do that to your starting QB of 3 years who had been playing at a Heisman trophy level prior to injury.
  4. Venables is a good defensive coach and they threw out a ton of different looks in that first quarter. They aren’t very good at certain spots (CB) but they have several guys who will be playing on Sundays and a good coach coordinating them. Regardless of where their scoring or total defense ranks, my overall point stands. Ewers isn’t the first NFL QB hopeful to have a poor game. This isn’t 2022 OSU where he had very little goodwill built up. The guy has played a lot of football the last 2 years and played well in big games. The same NFL that continually overdrafts QBs year after year isn’t overreacting to one bad performance.
  5. PK and Nansen still calling blitzes in the 4th quarter after what we’ve seen in the second half games the last 3 years was refreshing as hell. Everyone wants to talk about what we are likely to lose on offense after the year but think about this defense next year with Simmons, Hill, Burke, Muhammad, Guilbeau, McDonald, Lefau and Smith all a year older.
  6. Yeah but what about this one bad game?!?!?!?! I don’t think NFL teams have ever drafted a QB who played poorly against a good defense before.
  7. The offense only scored 23 last year. 7 came on a punt block TD. The 3 turnovers, all by Ewers (2 INT’s and a fumble) were killers. I do think it’s interesting that last year we had all this confidence and people predicting blowouts and Texas closed as a 3.5 point favorite. If I remember correctly the line was hanging out around 5-5.5 all week and a ton of late money came in on Oklahoma. I think the spread this year (14.5) is the largest since the 2015 and 2016 games (both OU -16.5). Only the 3rd time Texas has been favored since 2009.
  8. Miss State, LSU, South Carolina, New Mexico State, Auburn and Texas the rest of the way. Where are they underdogs outside of Texas? 7-1 SEC record seems very much on the table for A&M. Perks of avoiding Georgia, Bama, Tennessee and Ole Miss. But don’t forget Texas is the one with an easy schedule!
  9. Poster on IT: Josiah Sharma finally got eligible for Folsom and played in their 35-7 domination of Oak Ridge. Josiah was an absolute menace. I had him with 7 tackles 2 tfl 1 sack 1 fumble caused and 7 pressures. He might not have been credited with the sack, but he should have been. Was surprised that he played as many snaps as he did considering he hadn't played in a game yet, but only a couple of times was he subbed out until the 4th quarter. He was just too strong for the Oak Ridge OL. QB could never get settled in the pocket as he constantly drove his man into the backfield. He was active the whole night and was consistently chasing plays down from the backside. Motor was on the whole game. He did seem to tire a little in the second half, but he was still active and powerful. He has the body to anchor our defense, but he's so disruptive that we might want to give him a little latitude to penetrate. Kid's gonna be good.
  10. Dunlap on OB said he counted 4 missed tackles for Hill on Saturday. Was not a good day for him.
  11. I've given up hope on the band being featured in-game/during timeouts, but at least they aren't doing a billion ad reads like the old days or have an annoying "in-game host".
  12. It was 3rd down when he fumbled, right? I assume we would have gone for it on that 4th and 1 yard or whatever it would have been. The game script was so odd for about the first 3 quarters, especially the first half where Mississippi State had the ball the entire time. We ran 5 total run plays in the first half (6 if you include an Arch sack): Blue 1-yard TD, Blue 4-yards, Blue fumble loss of a yard, Wisner loss of 3 yards, Blue 4-yards. I believe it ended up being 6 carries for 3 yards. So the second half was 26 carries for 195 yards, which is much more in line with what we expected coming into the game.
  13. Did Justice Finkley even see the field yesterday? Also, I thought it was interesting they got Vasek in there when the game was still somewhat in question. He seems to be gaining more trust.
  14. Can we please stop the PA guy trying to do a mini Texas Fight cheer after every first down?
  15. The weekly illegal snap penalty has to be built into the gameplan at this point.
  16. He said postgame that they already planned on going for it if it was 4th and less than 5 following the 3rd down play, so once the offsides made it 4th and 3 there was no hesitation. Added he won’t apologize for being aggressive in those spots because that’s the mindset he wants the players to have. Hindsight is always 20/20. We convert and score a TD and everyone loves the decision or forgets their uneasiness about it. It was just a very poor play call for the situation.
  17. I didn’t hate the decision to go for it. We were averaging like 9 yards a play at that point and were facing very little resistance. The call was just poor. Have a higher percentage play ready. I’m pretty sure we ran that exact stupid play on 4th down against UH last year and it was also incomplete.
  18. Arch was so damn good today. Some of the bad stuff that happened at other positions will be focus but that was an awesome performance throwing the ball. Accuracy, anticipation, deep ball, etc. It’s going to be so fun to watch him continue to develop.
  19. FCB on Ewers Ewers practiced all week and is probably at "80 to 85 percent" healthy following the injury he suffered at the 12:19 mark of the second quarter against UTSA on Sept. 14, according to a source close to the situation. That source said Ewers wants to play against Mississippi State "to resume the season he's having and lead this team." Another source said it's "50-50" whether Texas coach Steve Sarkisian will play Ewers on Saturday. "It will be a game-time decision," the source said. "If it was OU, 100 percent Quinn would be playing. But giving him two more weeks of recovery makes a lot of long-term sense, too."
  20. Moro Ojomo wasn't even born yet when Rising started his college career
  21. There is a reason certain SEC schools are reluctant to move to 9 conference games (in addition to all the other TV money stuff). It takes away an extra non-conference win (probably their November FCS opponent) and schools that would normally ride the SEC coattails to a "respectable" 7-5 season or bowl eligibility on the backs of 3-1 or 4-0 non-conference slates are now missing bowls.
  22. They are certainly saying all the right stuff about Ewers. I see the sides to both arguments, but I think you play him if he feels good and the medical staff gives the thumbs up. If he was truly practicing today, even if it was in a limited capacity, that tells me he is pretty far along from when the injury occurred. I doubt they would let him do much, if any, rotational work if they were concerned about aggravating the abdomen/oblique. I am not a big fan of holding guys out who would be playing if it was a "bigger game". You are also talking about a guy who has now missed a game for the 3rd straight season and I think there is some value in him showing he can rebound quickly. The re-injury risk is a concern, but there are a million things injury-related that could happen in a football game that could be bad for him and are just as likely to happen against OU as against Mississippi State. If the trainers feel like it is healed, he can't get "extra healed". Of course, it would be great if he was only needed for 2.5 quarters if he does play.
  23. Good ole Coleman Hutzler having a rough go in his first year as Mississippi State's DC.
  24. That one was in the second half. The one I was referencing was the first half when we fair caught the punt at like the 45, made them rekick then Bolden did the crazy return where he ran 40 yards to gain about 10 yards with a block in the back at the end to push us back to the 25.
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